Hair advert mocking Kim Jong-un upsets North Korean officials

A West London barber's poster poking fun at the North Korean dictator's hairstyle upsets country's officials

16 April 2014

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A London salon received a visit from
North Korean
officials after it mocked their leader's unusual hairstyle.

Staff at M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, west London, put up a poster with "Bad Hair Day?" emblazoned across a picture of Kim Jong-un, with details of a special offer on men's haircuts in April.

The dictator sports a striking hairdo which is shaved around the sides and longer on top.

Barber Karim Nabbach, 26, said that salon manager Mo Nabbach was confronted by two men claiming to be officials from the country, demanding to know his name.

Karim Nabbach said: "We put up posters for an offer for men's hair cuts through the month of April. Obviously in the current news there has been this story that North Korean men are only allowed one haircut.

"We didn't realise but the North Korean embassy is a 10 minute walk from the salon. The next day we had North Korean officials pop into the salon asking to speak to the manager.

"He said 'listen this isn't North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy so I'm afraid you're going to have to get out of my salon'."

Both the salon and the embassy spoke to police but no offence has been reported.